Two Die In Weekend Traffic Accidents

Two Palm Beach County residents have died in traffic accidents so far this Memorial Day weekend, which officially ends at midnight tonight, Florida Highway Patrol officials said Sunday afternoon.

Ralph E. Craig, 57, who had no known address, was carrying a case of beer across Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach when an eastbound car struck him near the 1500 block at 12:08 a.m. Saturday, West Palm Beach Lt. John Conklin said Sunday.

Craig was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Hospital.

In the other accident, Pahokee resident Ira Butler, 60, fell asleep at the wheel of his 1975 Ford truck Sunday and died when it plunged into a canal almost five miles south of South Bay, the Patrol reported.